mantic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmæntɪk/|/ˈmantɪk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soothsayer, a seer.
    — Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to divination; prophetic.
    — [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.

词形变化

more mantic comparative most mantic superlative mantics plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
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